Roman Rabinovich

He has given recitals in venues such as Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre in New York, the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and the Terrace Theater of Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and has participated in festivals including Marlboro, Lucerne, Davos, Prague Spring, Klavier-Festival Ruhr, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. An avid chamber musician, he is also a regular guest at ChamberFest Cleveland while through the 2020-21 global pandemic, Rabinovich and his wife violinist Diana Cohen gave a very successful series of free weekly concerts from their front yard in Calgary.

Rabinovich has earned critical praise for his explorations of the piano music of Haydn. At the 2018 Bath Festival, he presented a 10-recital 42-sonata series, earning praise in The Sunday Times. Prior to that, in 2016 as artist in Residence at the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland, he performed 25 Haydn sonatas in 5 days, and he has also performed a complete sonata cycle in Tel Aviv. He is currently undertaking a recording project of the complete sonatas for First Hand Records, the with the second volume released in July 2021.

Born in Tashkent, Roman Rabinovich immigrated to Israel with his family in 1994 where he began his studies with Irena Vishnevitsky and Arie Vardi; he went on to graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Seymour Lipkin, and earned his Master’s Degree at the Juilliard School where he studied with Robert McDonald. Dubbed “a true polymath, in the Renaissance sense of the word” (Seen & Heard International, 2016), Rabinovich is also a composer and visual artist, who regularly enhances his performances and CDs with his own artwork.

June 2021

• • J.S. Bach:

  Concerto in D minor BWV 1052
  Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

  • Bartok:

  Concerto No. 2, Sz..95, BB101

  • Beethoven:

  Concerto No 1, in C major op 15
  Concerto No 2, in B flat major op 19
  Concerto No 3, in c minor op37
  Concerto No 4, in G major op58
  Concerto No 5, in E flat major op73
  Choral Fantasy, op80

  • Brahms:

  Concerto No 1, in D minor op15

  • Chopin:

  Concerto No 1, in E minor op11
  Concerto No 2 in F minor op21
  Fantasy on Polish airs, op13

  • Dvorak:

  Piano Concerto in G minor, op33

  • Franck:

  Symphonic Variations, M 46

  • Grieg:

  Concerto in A minor op16

  • Haydn:

  Concerto in D major

  • Liszt:

  Concerto No 1, in E flat major
  Concerto No 2, in A major

  • Mendelssohn:

  Double concerto for violin and piano in D minor
  Concerto No 1, in G minor op 25
  Concerto No 2, in D minor op 40
  Concerto in A minor, MWV O2

  • Mozart:

  Concerto in B flat major K 238
  Concerto in E flat major K 271 “Jeunehomme”
  Concerto in A major K.414
  Concerto in F major K.459
  Concerto in D minor K.466
  Concerto in C major K 467
  Concerto in E flat minor K.482
  Concerto in A major K.488
  Concerto in C minor K.491
  Concerto in C major K 503
  Concerto in B flat major K.595

  • Prokofiev:

  Concerto No 1, in D-flat major op10
  Concerto No 2, in G minor op16
  Concerto No 3, in C major op26
  Concerto No 5, G major op55

  • Rachmaninov:

  Concerto No 2, in C minor op18
  Concerto No 3, in D minor op30
  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

  • Saint-Saens:

  Concerto No 2, in G minor op22
  Concerto No 5 in F major, op103

  • Schumann:

  Concerto in A minor, op.54
  Introduction and Allego Appasionato op.92

  • Shchedrin:

  Concerto No 2

  • Shostakovich:

  Concerto No 1, in C minor for piano, trumpet and orchestra op35
  Concerto No.2 in F major, op102

  • Stravinsky:

  Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments
  Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra

  • Tchaikovsky:

  Concerto No 1, in B flat minor
  Concerto No 2, in G major op44

  • Yusupov:

  Concerto “Intimo” 2007